The sixth “Faculty Institute: Teaching with Technology” will be offered for UCSB faculty members September 15-17, 2009. The Institute is a joint effort of Instructional Development, Instructional Computing, and L&S Information Technology, and will consist of three all-day series of presentations and hands-on workshops. On Thursday Jackie Spafford will be leading a demonstration called “Incorporating…
We’re very happy to report that the 6,080 beautiful Archivision images (the VRA conference raffle grand prize, if you remember) are now available in the VRC image database (MDID). Select “Archivision Module 4” as the collection you want to search, or click on “Browse” on the menu and select the collection and browse criterion. You…
Photographer Richard Ross came by yesterday to photograph this “organic installation” at the VRC. We will soon be adding nearly 700 Richard Ross photographs to the VRC image database. They will include images from his publications Museology (1989), Gathering Light (2000), Waiting for the End of the World (2004), and Architecture of Authority (2007),…
While searching on the VRC’s image database is very flexible and user-friendly, there is one flaw which came up again this week. If a word is entered in our catalogue with diacritics or accents (e.g. the umlaut in DÜRER) you will need to include those in your search – in other words, DÜRER will work,…
We keep a growing list of resources here – there are links to our collection database (VRC-MDID), ARTstor, plus many other image resources, organized and annotated. Some of these are open to the public, some are licensed for UCSB use. Please visit, and let us know if you find something great to add, or notice…